LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American forum executive committee:
Paula M. L. Moya, Jan. 2016
Mark Goble, Jan. 2017 (2015–Jan. 2016 Ch.)
Amy Hungerford, Jan. 2018 (2015–Jan. 2016 Sec.)
Heather Houser, Jan. 2019
Joseph Jeon, Jan. 2020
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Matthew Calihman started the topic MLA Proposed Session: Political Oratory and African Am Lit (abstracts by 3/13) in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 1 month, 1 week ago
I am proposing a special session at MLA 2024 on “Political Oratory and African American Literature.” Papers will examine speeches by elected officials as contributions to African American literary discourse. Please email 300-word abstracts to matthewcalihman@missouristate.edu by March 13.
Matthew Calihman, Professor of English, Missouri S…[Read more]
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Faye Hammill deposited The Frantic Atlantic: Ocean Liners in the Interwar Imagination in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 months, 1 week ago
Transatlantic literary exchange depended, during the 19th and earlier 20th centuries, on the ocean liner. Books and periodicals were exported via sea routes, lent among passengers or through ships’ libraries, and even bought and sold on board. The High Seas Bookshops, established on some Anchor Line vessels in the 1920s, strikingly demonstrate the…[Read more]
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Joseph R. Millichap deposited James Agee, Frances Wickes, and The Morning Watch as Shadowy Autobiography in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 4 months, 1 week ago
James Agee’s complicated life and complex work have elicited varied critical responses, but none thus far by way of the writer’s intriguing relationship with his sometime analyst Frances Wickes. I believe Agee’s autobiographical writings prove both intertextual with and influenced by Wickes’s work, especially in regard to her novel and to The Mor…[Read more]
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Amel Abbady deposited Afghanistan’s “Bacha Posh”: Gender-Crossing in Nadia Hashimi’s The Pearl That Broke Its Shell in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 months ago
This article explores the tradition of Bacha Posh in Afghan culture as depicted in Afghan-American Nadia Hashimiʼs debut novel The Pearl that Broke its Shell (2014). In this novel, Hashimi shows how Afghan girls are obliged to cross-dress and live dual lives as boys for several years to lay claim for their rights to education and freedom of…[Read more]
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Amel Abbady deposited “‘You cannot assimilate Indian ghosts’ : a magical realist reading of Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 months, 1 week ago
In The Night Watchman (2020), Louise Erdrich continues to blur the lines between history and fiction as she has done in several of her novels. Erdrich introduces the reader to several magical elements that appear to be entirely real: two ghosts, a dog that talks, and an unearthly powwow with Jesus as one of the dancers. The main objective of this…[Read more]
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Patrick Chura started the topic Call for Essays on African American Literature and Culture in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 11 months, 1 week ago
The non-profit digital scholarly database The Literary Encyclopedia was founded in 1998 to provide a scholarly online resource for university-level teaching and research. We are in the process of expanding our offerings in the field of African American Literature and Culture.
We’re interested in commissioning reference articles (2,000-…[Read more]
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Aldon Lynn Nielsen deposited Of Dr. Shelby Steele and Others in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months ago
A sharply critical response to Shelby Steele’s first book, The Content of Our Character.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Rollback: Leaving Women to Demons in Gene Wolfe’s Fiction in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 1 year, 5 months ago
Gene Wolfe, living though Severian, re-experiences via Thecla’s characterization of him as not being worth enough to value highly for being what he thought he could only amount to her when he first met her, that is, simply a boy at hand, his own once being lured into the attentions’ of his mother and then dismissed by her when she was done usi…[Read more]
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Ferdâ Asya started the topic CFP – AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS: THEN AND NOW – PROPOSALS BY AUGUST 31, 2021 in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 1 year, 8 months ago
I am inviting original essays on the literary works written by American writers, who have lived in Paris from the 1800s to the present, for a book tentatively titled American Writers in Paris: Then and Now.
Although American expatriate literature in Paris is typified by the Lost Generation or the Jazz Age of the 1920s, Americans show a distinct…[Read more]
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Joseph R. Millichap deposited “The Dark Mirror of Our Lives”: Richard Wright, 12 Million Black Voices, and Auto/biography in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
First presented as a paper at the 2018 SAMLA Convention in Atlanta, this article will become a chapter of my book in progress on the photobooks of the 1930s and 1940s illustrated with the photographs of the Farm Security Administration.
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Scott Challener deposited Rehearing “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” in an Era of Global Decolonization: ASK YOUR MAMA’s Jazz Poetics in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months ago
A brief talk for a roundtable on the centenary of Langston Hughes’s “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.”
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Scott Challener deposited The New Border (Spring 2021) in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months ago
This course is a study of the literature of the U.S.-Mexico border from the 1980s to the present. We begin with Gloria Anzaldúa’s foundational texts, Borderlands / La Frontera, and her landmark feminist anthology, co-edited with Cherríe Moraga, This Bridge Called My Back: Radical Writings by Women of Color. We then consider the legacies and aft…[Read more]
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Scott Challener deposited Contemporary Latinx Literatures & Cultures in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months ago
This course is a study of Latinx literatures and cultures produced in the last two decades. We will concentrate our attention on how contemporary art works represent and participate in the upheavals of the twenty-first century—9/11, global economic and ecological crisis, mass migration and mass deportation, political and social mobilization, s…[Read more]
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Mark Sample deposited ENG 296 – Science Fiction (Spring 2021) in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months ago
The syllabus for science fiction course offered Spring 2021 in the English Department at Davidson College.
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Kate Pond deposited “Sapience” The (Attempted) Making of a Modern Myth: Storybuilding as a Component of Social Justice in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months ago
This autoethnographic exploration, describes and reflects upon my attempt to crowdsource a modern myth on the origins of racism in America. It draws on my work in narrative studies with a special focus on stories and their role in human development. Part one is analysis of the ‘functions’ of story as both plot variables and sociological act…[Read more]
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Amin Nash deposited Romantic American Ideals and Disruptive Perceptions: Human and Character Disconnections in Nabokov’s Lolita with Observations from Kubrick’s Film in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months ago
Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita” is known for its seductive writing despite its destructive subject matter. How does this novel accomplish such a juxtaposition? How does the novel keep the reader interested despite Humber blatantly attacking Dolores Haze? This essay explores critically explores the technical method which Nabokov uses in “Lolita.” The…[Read more]
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Lisa L. Tyler deposited Ernest Hemingway, Global American Modernist in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months ago
A Companion to World Literature. John Wiley and Sons, 2020. Available in Wiley Online Library, https://www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118635193
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Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited Books.Files: Preservation of Digital Assets in the Contemporary Publishing Industry (A Report) in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 3 years ago
The book publishing industry is an important social, cultural, and economic institution whose records deserve to be preserved for the public good. Books.Files was an exploratory project funded in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation aimed at assessing the archival value of digital assets in the contemporary publishing industry for stakeholders…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited in our time: The 1924 Text in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month ago
This critical edition of Hemingway’s 1924 version of in our time is the second of three volumes for each major state of the text. Few writers have shaped the style of twentieth century prose as did Hemingway, and it all began with the “vignettes” of in our time, which have been largely unavailable for scholars and entirely out of reach for…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Digital Wallace: Networked Pedagogies and Distributed Reading in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month ago
This is the peer-reviewed submission version of the essay, which focuses on the role that digital communication platforms can play in teaching and engaging with Wallace’s work.
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